ICFP 2008 Programming Contest Results

Congratulations to Our Winners!

The winners of the 2008 ICFP Programming Contest were announced
at the ICFP in Victoria, British Columbia on Tuesday,
September 23. We wish to extend congratulations to our winners.

Language

First Place

Team Smartass

Java

Lightning Round First Place

jabber.ru

OCaml

Judges' Prize

The Lone TEXnician

LaTeX (with a Perl wrapper)

More information about the contest winners will posted soon.

We thank all of our participants for their effort and their
enthusiasm.
Your substantial collective work (about 18 person years of work, by one estimate)
made this contest matter.
We hope you will join us again next year for another
great contest!

Lightning Round

Final Round

8/15/08. Note: In the final round only, the rules have been relaxed to include
teams whose code expected an IP address instead of a hostname as a
command-line argument. This had the effect of including some teams in
competition who had been heretofore disqualified. Unfortunately, we
did not have time to re-run the lightning round trials, so those
results stand.

Important Note

If your team does not appear in the results for the first trial (for
either the lightning or the final round), it is because your
submission failed to install or run.

Common errors included failure in the bin/install script and
failure to establish a connection to the server within a one minute
time limit.